Overview
For the European Union to become a carbon-neutral economy by 2050, decision-makers need reliable energy data to define, implement, and monitor the effectiveness of energy policies. CERVINO facilitates the exchange and visualisation of energy data within the Alpine territory. It sets up a stable and reliable system that enables a better collection, management, update and use of Alpine energy data. The project improves the Energy Survey conducted in 2017 and 2019 in the framework of the EU Strategy for the Alpine Region (EUSALP) developing a simple, user-friendly energy data management tool. Data entry and processing of the management tool will be facilitated and a roadmap will ensure regular surveys on energy data. The Energy Survey will support decision-making processes on energy matters across the Alps.
Factsheet
- 2021 – 2027
- Carbon neutral and resource sensitive Alpine region
- SO 2.1 - Promoting energy efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas emissions
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- AG9 Energy efficiency and renewable energy
- 09/2022
- 02/2024
- 669.200 EUR
- 501.900 EUR
Description
The CERVINO project, named after the mighty mountain in the Alps, aims to develop an energy data platform for the Alpine region. Why is such a platform important and how is it being developed?
The Alpine Space benefits from important energy flows between regions. These energy flows can lead to cross-border energy projects, which in turn can significantly contribute to achieving the EU goal of being CO2 neutral by 2050. A necessary basis for joint energy projects is reliable cross-regional energy data. They make it possible to define framework conditions and projects, to implement them and to check their success.
There are various challenges in obtaining a reliable, transnational data basis: Energy data, which have a different spatial and temporal scale, must be collected and analysed. The data must also be reliable and updated regularly and cost-effectively. The results need to be presented in a way that is easily understood by all stakeholders in the region. And stakeholders need to know about the data platform and its usefulness.
The CERVINO project addresses all these challenges. Based on previous energy surveys, it is developing a new platform: the CERVINO Alpine Energy Data Platform. It enables the exchange of energy data between regions and supports decision-making processes.
To do so, CERVINO will leverage an already existing activity developed within EUSALP's AG9, the "EUSALP Energy Survey", implemented in 2017 and updated in 2019. Taking that past experience as a starting point, it will reshape, upgrade and improve the existing Energy Survey structure based on the lessons learned. The project develops a simple, user-friendly energy data tool allowing for automated management of the Survey. It conducts the reshaped Survey using the new tool and validate the developed solutions. A roadmap for the durability of the new energy data management tool shall ensure the regular update of the Survey and ultimately leading to the establishment of an Alpine Energy Observatory. And CERVINO makes the Energy Data Platform known among the stakeholders to maximise its use and usefulness.
To ensure the quality and usefulness of the new platform, CERVINO is involving stakeholders from the Alpine region in its development. Among them will be regional authorities as well as members from EUSALP’s Action Group 9, an Action Group focused on Energy in the EU Strategy for the Alpine Region (EUSALP). In March 2024, a platform will be available for the first time that will allow the exchange of energy data for the Alpine Space in an automated, cost-efficient and regularly updated way: the CERVINO Alpine Energy Data Platform.
Organisations implementing the CERVINO project are energy agencies and a research institute that are experts in energy planning and energy data in the Alpine region:
From Italy
- Region Liguria: IRE spa, the Regional Agency for Infrastructure development, building Renovation and Energy of Liguria as lead partner.
- Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano/Bozen: Eurac research
From France
Region Rhône-Alpes: Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Energy Environment Agency
From Slovenia
Region Vzhodna Slovenija: Energy Agency of Savinjska, Šaleška and Koroška Region
From Germany
Region Oberbayern: Civic Foundation Energiewende Oberland (EWO)
Learn more about the CERVINO project team here.
Partners
- Lead partner
- Italy
- Liguria (ITC3)
- Genova
- Francesca Verardo
- verardo@ireliguria.it
- France
- Rhône-Alpes (FRK2)
- Villeurbanne
- Etienne Viénot
- etienne.vienot@avergnerhonealpes-ee.fr
- Germany
- Oberbayern (DE21)
- Penzberg
- Stefan Drexlmeier
- drexlmeier@energiewende-oberland.de
- Italy
- Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano/Bozen (ITH1)
- Bolzano
- Valentina D'Alonzo
- valentina.dalonzo@eurac.edu
- Slovenia
- Vzhodna Slovenija (SI03)
- Velenje
- Živa Majerič Vovk
- ziva.vovk@kssena.velenje.eu
- 44.40711118.9350994
- 45.77163274.8649712
- 47.758166111.3806009
- 46.494530211.3472734
- 46.370966915.0979769
Outcomes
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EUSALP Energy Data Management Tool
WebsiteThis simple, open-source, easy-to-navigate data tool will enable the optimal collection, processing, visualization and use of energy data at macro-regional level. The goal is to deliver it a few months before project closure to allow sufficient time for wide dissemination, e.g. exploiting the possibility to present it at the Eusalp Annual Forum 2023.
Videos
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Reliable energy data are the basis for decision-makers to define, implement, and monitor the effectiveness of energy policies. To implement a well-informed energy strategy for the EUSALP macro- region that responds to the needs and challenges of the territory, Action Group 9 developed the Energy Survey to collect regional and national energy data, as well as medium and long-term policy goals defined by the functional units in the EUSALP territory. This report describes the development of the reshaped Energy Survey, including analysis of previous Energy Survey versions, new data requirements, and compilation instructions for the data collection interface to ensure data homogenization and consistency.Download
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This report describes the development of the Alpine Energy Data Platform, based on TerriSTORY® source code. It includes modification of the existing tool and additional features implemented specifically during the CERVINO project. Chapter 1 briefly references the web-based platform developed by Activity 1.1 and described in Deliverable D1.1.1. Chapter 2 presents CERVINO's data visualization platform, the “Alpine Energy Data Platform”. It describes the existing TerriSTORY® source code, the elements adapted to fulfill CERVINO requirements, and it details the new features developed. In Chapter 3, the data flow between the data collection tool and the visualization platform is established using an API. It also offers some examples of the indicators available on the platform.Download
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EUSALP needs reliable consolidated energy data to facilitate the decision-making process at macro-regional level. Following EUSALP Energy Surveys 2017 and 2019, the CERVINO project aimed to facilitate a new approach to energy data exchange within the Alpine territory by setting up a reliable system to collect, manage, update, and use energy data, thus modernising the EUSALP Energy Survey. This report focuses on the process of conducting the new EUSALP Energy Survey 2023, which also acted as validation for the newly adopted tool. Among others, it contains information on the data collection process, the status of collected data, and functionality of the energy data collection tool.Download
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This report describes all the activities performed in Activity 1.4 of CERVINO: “Developing a Roadmap for durability of the new energy data management system”. Activity 1.4 aimed at developing the Roadmap, ensuring the regular update of the Survey and ultimately leading to the establishment of an Alpine Energy Observatory (AEO) in the mid-term. And it aimed at exploring the options to reduce the budget and time to further update the survey, based on the semi-automatic update of the Survey using the new tool. Report D1.4.1 informs about the process towards the future establishment of the Alpine Energy Observatory, the state of the art of energy data collection in regions, as well as the roadmap’s main elements.Download
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The CERVINO project successfully developed and established a user-friendly online platform for accessing and visualizing energy data for the Alpine region. Report D1.5.1 gives information on CERVINO’s dissemination and awareness raising, including a communication strategy developed and implemented throughout the project to inform and involve target audiences, communication activities such as the project website, social media channels, newsletters, press release and various communication materials, as well as an overview of presentations at numerous EUSALP and external events, along with dedicated workshops for EUSALP members to receive feedback and refine the data platform.Download
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